Archive for the 'Protests' Tag Under 'Orange Punch' Category

"As the year wore on, frustration finally boiled over in the form of the Occupy Various Random Spaces movement, wherein people who were sick and tired of a lot of stuff finally got off their butts and started working for meaningful change via direct action in the form of sitting around and forming multiple committees and drumming and not directly issuing any specific demands but definitely having a lot of strongly held views for and against a wide variety of things. Incredibly, even this did not bring about meaningful change." --humorist Dave Barry

And they still have strongly held views and no specific demands on a lot of stuff. And no meaningful change.

But you have to wonder how the wandering food vendors do at these gatherings.

Some Democrats and their hangers-on are saying that the protests by the Wisconsin government workers against Gov. Walker are the same as the protests that toppled tyrannies in Egypt and Tunisia. Here's a New York Times op-ed. And here's Robert Kuttner, a Democratic strategist, in the Huffington Post.

The opposite is true.

In Egypt and Tunisia, repressive governments were loathed by citizens forced to pay sky-high taxes to keep their oppressors in splendor and luxury. The citizens finally had enough and protested.

In Wisconsin, the repressive government feeding off taxpayers is the government workers, who enjoy massive pay and benefits. The people of the state finally revolted and put in charge Gov. Walker and other Republicans. (I suspect they'll end up selling out in the end, as Republicans usually do.)

The video gives another look at the mob of students, union workers and teachers who spent the morning and afternoon protesting at UCI. In this video the group chants out front of lecture halls attempting to get their fellow students to walk out of class with them:

The president of the local UAW union spoke at UCI's student, faculty and union "walk out" today. The event is one of many taking place across the state of California. One would think with an audience mostly comprised of students that the message would have focused around them, but this speech given by the local union leader suggests that students should be advocating for more worker, er, union, influence in the UC.